More How-To
More Photo How-To Articles
Discover the wide range of photography techniques and how-tos in this varied selection of articles. You'll find tips on photography gear and travel, plus shooting techniques and solutions to common problems.
Beware Of The Sun?
A Burning Question • What’s A Pro Camera? • Prints From The Dark Side • When Things Get Wet
 Q I recently “went digital” with a Nikon D90. While exploring the user’s manual, I was surprised to read a warning to keep the sun well out of the frame when shooting backlit subjects. It stated on page XIV in the “For Your Safety” section, “Keep the sun well out of the frame when shooting backlit subjects. Sunlight focused into the camera when the sun is in or close to the frame could cause a fire.”
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My Middle Earth
Thanks to the elves of Yosemite
 Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park is one of my favorite places on the planet. Years ago, I camped there for an entire summer. It was there, surrounded by granite domes and spires, that I first read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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Grinding The Bean
Working all the angles of an icon
 Travel photographers working in tourist destinations face a dilemma: the iconic view, skyline or structure of a place often is so well known and photographed that it’s almost impossible to come up with anything new.
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Adding Sound
Any filmmaker knows the soundtrack is an integral part of the visual experience. By adding sound to video or multimedia shows, you can give them a richer dimension.
 We’re heading to a multimedia age. As new HD video-capable D-SLRs come online with more and more frequency, nature photographers are increasingly able to add dimension to their photography by incorporating motion and still imagery into short presentations.
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Online Learning Comes Of Age
Much more than the correspondence courses of a past era, you can build upon your photo education by taking a class through the Internet
 The old-fashioned correspondence course has grown up, and in the digital age, it has become a viable and truly enjoyable way to learn how to take better pictures.
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The Big Trip
See how National Geographic photographer and Outdoor Photographer columnist Frans Lanting gears up for an expedition. You probably won’t ever need as much equipment with you, but there’s a lot to learn from his approach.
 What gear to pack? What to leave at home? If you don’t have it, you can’t use it, balanced with the fact that too much equipment can slow you down and you miss the opportunity to put yourself in a position to get the shot in the first place.
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Get Into The Stock Market
With more Outdoor Photographer readers looking to sell images in the face of an increasingly fragmented marketplace, there are some tremendous opportunities opening up
 The last 10 years have been chaotic for independent photographers, as the old ways of doing business have withered before our eyes.
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Web Optimization Part II
Working with sharpness, watermarks and metadata
 In the January/February issue, we addressed the concepts of examining your target audience and choosing the appropriate file size and image size for the intended display. Here, we’ll look at the important steps of applying sharpness and applying watermarks and using metadata. Watermarks are an essential tool for protecting your images when you make them available on the web, and metadata is extremely useful for both image protection and for making your images searchable so people can find you on the web.
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Just A Little Background Information
Blurry Backgrounds • A New-Sized Sensor? • Brighter Nights • Sharing CF Cards • Wishing On A Starburst
 I want to take wildflower images with the background thrown completely out of focus. The problem is that my telephoto lens (75-300mm) is an ƒ/5.6 lens, and I fear that it won’t do an acceptable job of making the background nothing more than color. Do I need a faster ƒ/2.8 telephoto to accomplish this technique?
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